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    Do your employees a favor and don't hire your children!

    I freaking hate working with the boss' "kids". I've done it in thd past and its always sucked but never this bad! We've been here for an hour and this chick hasn't gotten out of her chair except to take a smoke break. Apparently all that celebrity news she's been reading all morning has her really stressed out.

    I should probably stop typing and go finish cleaning the bathroom
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    My sisters and I used to have to go with my mom over the summer since we didn't have school. I know now that we were the biggest PITAs, since we just wanted to play while they were all building jewelry.
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    I know this feeling well as I type this from work myself. The CEO is nice, his daughter works here and she's pretty great, so that's an exception. However, the vice president's son sometimes works here and he's nice and all but he's kind of creepy. And then they only higher the vice presidents friends or friends of friends to work here for support/our call center.

    I'm apparently lucky to be here since I have no blood relation or any previous relation to any of these people.

    So this company is basically a family business that I snuck into.

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    Re: Do your employees a favor and don't hire your children!

    feels like it goes both ways. Also seen bosses be the hardest on their children i'm guessing to seem fair.
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    Re: Do your employees a favor and don't hire your children!

    Quote Originally Posted by Archimedes View Post
    My sisters and I used to have to go with my mom over the summer since we didn't have school. I know now that we were the biggest PITAs, since we just wanted to play while they were all building jewelry.
    If she were a child tagging along I'd be a lot more understanding. She's 31 years old and was hired to help me specifically. Instead she actually makes more work because she does just enough to create a task, but never follows through. Guess who gets to finish it for her? She basically comes and goes as she pleases and if there's a crappy job that she doesn't feel like doing then she simply doesn't do it. I have never seen someone put more energy into trying to look busy so they can avoid actually doing something productive.
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    Re: Do your employees a favor and don't hire your children!

    I would go out to Philly and work for my Dad in the summers detailing cars on his car lot. I was treated no different then other employees if anything I was treated to work harder. My Dad told me you might be my son but when you come to work for me your a employee of my business and you won't get special treatment. I hired you and I will fire you, just like how I can with everyone else.

    My Dad is a educated businessman and this may sound cruel to a lot of people but if he didn't teach me business like that. I may have ended up like the kid your talking about.
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    Re: Do your employees a favor and don't hire your children!

    Quote Originally Posted by BrandiR View Post
    If she were a child tagging along I'd be a lot more understanding. She's 31 years old and was hired to help me specifically. Instead she actually makes more work because she does just enough to create a task, but never follows through. Guess who gets to finish it for her? She basically comes and goes as she pleases and if there's a crappy job that she doesn't feel like doing then she simply doesn't do it. I have never seen someone put more energy into trying to look busy so they can avoid actually doing something productive.
    Doesn't your work have some sort of system to say "hey, this isn't working out". For my work you can just walk up to the foreman and say there is a problem.

    I'm one of those kids. I worked directly for my dad for a while actually. People said he was a lot harder on me than normal apprentices, but I did learn a lot. I actually got a lot of grief for "riding daddy's coattails", always having to prove myself every new foreman I worked for. Eventually that disappears though. So yea it's not so easy on some of us children.

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    My husband is dealing with this right now. His boss hired his son and it's been a disaster so far. I'm hoping things get better soon lol.

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